If you don't get what #blacklivesmatter means, chances are, it's because you are the very kind of person that created the need for this movement. The fact that this is even an issue in 2016, is shameful.
All human beings deserve to be treated fairly. It's not rocket science, we know what the answers are.
Until everyone does their best to make sure that happens, #blacklivesmatter and any other movement that raises people up, will continue on.
We are supposed to help our fellow man, not kick them when they are at their lowest, weakest and most fragile. If a young adult, black or white commits crime, it's we who have failed that kid as a society. It's our collective fault, he doesn't know he is better then that.
Kids are not born criminals. They either were raised never knowing self worth, or feel they have no options other then to steal to survive. We can fix that.
If they are not being told they matter at home, then it's on social institutions like schools and churches and neighborhood recreation centers to pick up the slack.
If any child, feels less then human, that requires us as a society to step in and say, you do matter.
Black lives DO matter.
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